With well over 200 million copies sold, the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities really do rank as amongst the most famous in the history of English literature. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry in the ...
She wrote the book of short stories No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) and the novel The First Bad Man (2015). Alejandro Amenábar Age: 52 Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer. Among other honors, he...
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold,’ may be one of the most famous opening lines in journalism – and for good reason, as what followed birthed the entire genre of ‘Gonzo Journalism’. Hunter S Thompson takes his alter ego ...
City of Night, his debut novel published in 1963, was a best seller. Drawing on his own background, he has contributed to Chicano literature, notably with his novel The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, which has been taught in several Chicano literature courses throughout the United Stat...
In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel by L. Frank Baum. Yonge Street• Canada – Toronto, OntarioThe longest street in the world at 1,896 km. Referred to as "Main Street Ontario", a large part of the route follows an ancient well-established Aboriginal trail. ...
The ink lines turn inward and outward, opening and closing wide, exposing the front to express its spirit, hiding the front to cover its momentum, and the characters are inclined, reflected, and restrained Backward, inclined, and staggered, connecting the beginning and end, echoing up and down...
government overreach invades personal autonomy and surveillance becomes ubiquitous serves as a powerful warning against the abuse of power. His use of stark, foreboding imagery and the manipulation of language in the novel highlights the potential for political systems to manipulate truth and influence ...
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List of the most popular authors from China, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries authors have been among the world's most ...
Emily Jane Brontë (, commonly ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the you...